If you believe what you said, you need to revisit Level II SA training. Government regs require illegal material be reported. The hitch is we may not investigate. That is left to an Agent of Law Enforcement. We must have a reason relative to our job to find it. Noticing inappropriate filenames in the Document list for example. We may NOT look at the file to confirm, but must report what we've found. Many hours of training go into what SA's can and cannot do in these cases in Government work.
If one of our F-4 target drones went stupid (which happened A LOT, but hey, they're old) we would simply blow it up! They carried a warhead in their belly as a fail safe. Not enough was left to hurt anyone it may have fallen on.
I worked on the F-4 target project some years back and the F-4 is probably the worst plane to make into a drone. Does make an easy target though. But most modern planes are fly-by-wire and would simply need transponders and a computer to remotely control. A system could easily be fitted into any commercial jetliner to be a backup if something happened to the pilot. Pilots control these types of projects though, so they'll never really take their place.
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If you believe what you said, you need to revisit Level II SA training. Government regs require illegal material be reported. The hitch is we may not investigate. That is left to an Agent of Law Enforcement. We must have a reason relative to our job to find it. Noticing inappropriate filenames in the Document list for example. We may NOT look at the file to confirm, but must report what we've found. Many hours of training go into what SA's can and cannot do in these cases in Government work.
Yep, you're flying an old school bus. And anything over Mach really sucks down the JP8!
If one of our F-4 target drones went stupid (which happened A LOT, but hey, they're old) we would simply blow it up! They carried a warhead in their belly as a fail safe. Not enough was left to hurt anyone it may have fallen on.
I worked on the F-4 target project some years back and the F-4 is probably the worst plane to make into a drone. Does make an easy target though. But most modern planes are fly-by-wire and would simply need transponders and a computer to remotely control. A system could easily be fitted into any commercial jetliner to be a backup if something happened to the pilot. Pilots control these types of projects though, so they'll never really take their place.